Managing tragedies: Understanding conflict over common pool resources.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2003

• Country: India, Zimbabwe, Tanzania
• Document Type: Journal Article
• Theme: Climate and Environment
• Authors: Adams, W., Vira, B., Brockington, D., Dyson, J.

Abstract

Conflicts over the management of common pool resources are not simply material. They also depend on the perceptions of the protagonists. Policy to improve management often assumes that problems are self-evident, but in fact careful and transparent consideration of the ways different stakeholders understand management problems is essential to effective dialogue.

Citation

Science (2003) 302 (5652) 1915-1916 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1087771]

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Managing tragedies: Understanding conflict over common pool resources.

Published 1 January 2003